Author: Nicholas Copeland

Science and Justice: “Impartial” Water Monitoring and Resistance to the Escobal Mine in Guatemala

Editor’s note: This is the third post in an ongoing series called “The Spectrum of Research and Practice in Guatemalan Science Studies.” The surface installation of the Escobal…

Post date 7th July 2020
Post author By Nicholas Copeland
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Facial Paralysis: Somaticizing Frustration in Guatemala by Nicholas Copeland

Somatosphere

While conducting ethnographic fieldwork on indigenous political organizing in northwest Guatemala in the mid 2000s, I encountered, quite by accident, an apparent epidemic of Bell’s Palsy—an illness in…

Post date 3rd August 2015
Post author By Nicholas Copeland
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